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Monday, November 16, 2015

Snippets & Snatches...Rainy...50's

Fall sure turns our thoughts to food, doesn't it? Perhaps there's an instinct to take in more calories to build up for the winter. I sure do see that in my goats, who are stuffing themselves lately. I'm happy to see all the comments about cooking without a recipe. (Follow us on FB for random questions like this! )That's the way I am for sure! When you can only get to town once a week and sometimes even longer between trips, you sure learn to be creative on the good days, and improvise all other times. Reading everyone's comments brought to mind anincident from long ago. ............We were invited to an anniversary gathering and I was asked to bring the Macaroni Salad. A family member spokeright up and said "I hope you'll use a recipe." Humph!!!!! that samefamily member often opens the refrigerator door and says "there'snothing to eat in here." And yet meals are served every day!!!!!Anyway because I'm in the house more I've been looking through oldcookbooks lately and found this fact. The first known printed cookbookwas De Honesta Voluptate by Bartholomaeus de Platina, printed inVenice in 1475. Perhaps he didn't like his wife always "winging it"either!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway one of the great pleasures of lifeis that you never stop learning. And that certainly is true in usingthe great varieties of food in the creation!Epicurus wrote "The fountain & root of every good is the pleasure of the stomach". So let's serve whatever it is with love and cheerfulness as yesterday'sQUOTE said.

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Welcome to Jonquil Junction!. No matter where you roam here, through hollers or over ridges, you will find jonquils growing. Usually the cabin is gone or turned into a hay barn, the stone "chimbley"has tumbled down and the well's gone dry,but the jonquils still bloom.How many years ago were they planted?.No one knows. But they are enduring, just like the first people that settled these hills. They came and stayed when roads and electricity, telephones and yes, even the Internet didn't exist.To raise a family in these surroundings a woman must have had character, strength and stamina. I'm sure every spring after the long dreary winter ended, the sight of the blooming Jonquils must have lifted her spirits and given her hope to carry on.The Ozarks are the oldest mountain range in the United States.They travel through Arkansas, Missouri,and Oklahoma.We are featuring (but not limited to) North Central Arkansas and the Ozarks at Jonquil Junction where Rural still dominates. It's a place where the daily news source is the local Cafe, where the weekly newspaper has a gossip column for each small community.The local A.M. radio station's daily "swap shop" is a morning ritual, where in the back of a store you'll hear 2 or more men 'pickin and a strummin' and if you dial a wrong number you'll probably be recognized!.So come capture and enjoy some of the past and present country style, even if only visiting online!